The Expulsion of the Christians from Metz, and the Burning of their Books

At the same time, many Christians at Metz, who professed the same faith and were called Waldenses, were shamefully driven out of Metz, and their books were burned, because they had translated the Holy Scriptures into their mother tongue.

The papistic author of the large Belgic Chronicle, on the authority of the ancient historian Albericus, calls them a Waldensian sect, and says

"That certain abbots were sent to preach against them; who burned some books translated from the Latin into their mother tongue, and so wiped out that sect. Mon. Nuciensis Magn. Chron. Belgicum, Frankfort edition, in the year 1607, page 189.